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Jeffrey Miles pleads 'not guilty' to killing Angie Daley in 1995

By BETH ANNE HEESEN

Updated:
12/05/2012 05:52:02 PM EST

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Sunday Gossert clutches a photo of her slain daughter, Angie Lynn Daley during the press conference when District Attorney Matt Fogal announced Jeffrey Eldon Miles, 46, would be charged with the death of Angie Daley. (Public Opinion file photo, Markell DeLoatch)

CHAMBERSBURG -- A State Line man awaiting his capital murder trial in a 2010 case will have a second murder trial on new allegations that he bludgeoned a Waynesboro girl to death in 1995.

On Wednesday, Jeffrey Eldon Miles Sr., 49, pleaded not guilty to killing 17-year-old Angie Daley in Washington Township 17 years ago. He waived his arraignment in Franklin County Court but entered his plea.

The new murder charge was filed after Miles was arrested April 6, 2010 for the stabbing death of 29-year-old Kristy Hoke of Hagerstown, Md. Police allege that Miles killed Hoke in retaliation for information she gave law enforcement about his activities.

Trooper Aaron Martin of Pennsylvania State Police, Chambersburg, testified at a September hearing that he was investigating the Hoke case when he found a notebook that Miles had written in. The writings made reference to a 1995 killing but didn't mention any names, he said.

Martin showed Miles a picture of Daley, who had been missing from her home since Aug. 24, 1995.

"I told him that it'd be nice to give her parents closure," the trooper said. Miles agreed to take him to some woods off a private farm lane at 3402 Buchanan Trail East in Washington Township -- where he reportedly hid Daley's skeletal remains.

A February DNA report showed a high probability match between the skeleton and a sample taken from Daley's mother, Sunday Gossert.

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Franklin County Coroner Jeffrey Conner said the age of the remains were consistent with the number of years Daley has been missing. The skeleton matched the girl's biological description and age at the time she went missing, he said.

According to Martin, Miles said he beat Daley to death with a 2x4 board in 1995 after the two of them smoked crack.

"He said something had come over him and he smacked her upside the head with a board."

Miles reportedly said he thought Daley was dead after hitting her with the board, placed the girl in the trunk of a car and drove to the field off Buchanan Trail East.

When Miles arrived there, he allegedly opened the trunk and Daley popped up. She said, "Please don't kill me," Martin said, and Miles related that he hit her in the head with the board two more times.

Once she was dead, Martin said Miles removed Daley's clothes "to help with the decomposing" -- later tossing them in various trash cans.

Franklin County District Attorney Matthew D. Fogal previously said the Daley case does not qualify for a death penalty sentence and will not affect the prosecution of the Hoke case.

A conference to discuss jury questionnaires in the Hoke murder case is set for Thursday/this morning, according to attorney Eric Weisbrod, who is representing Miles.

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Beth Anne Heesen can be reached at 262-4754 or baheesen@publicopinionnews.com. Follow her on Twitter @baheesenPO.

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